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    XPEnology - Virtualized vs Standalone

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    It depend on what synoboot image you use.

    System does not need the synoboot image after boot.

    Images built by "Andy928" identify USB synoboot as an internal harddrive and while not used by system after boot, are still visible and can be overwritten by volume creation process if you are not careful deselecting them.

    DSM4.2(beta) repack images by "odie82544" identify USB synoboot as USB drive and can be safely ejected after boot. You still can leave them plugged in for the next reboot.

    Single internal SSD drive will have no use in this native installation. In HP microserver I would use 4 drives as main RAID storage, one large drive in the CDROM bay as a second volume for the backups. Disable built in RAID in the BIOS and let software to handle disks directly.

    DSM 4.2 beta (3161) for RS3413xs+ Repack

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    I really like this build."Correction: I am actually using DS3612xs_2661-Repack, not RS3413xs+, but apart from seeing first two drives as SSD, everything else works the same"

    Synoboot USB correctly identified as USB flash and can be ejected after boot. All USB ports and external drives are visible and working, but HID UPS still not working. During the installation of DSM USB is not overwritten or corrupted.

    Installed on ASUS E35M1-I (AMD E-350). Currently installed 4GB of RAM but it doesn't use that much. Even with 1GB RAM it was not using more than 50%. CPU show high utilization on thumbnail generation and during rsync backup, but unit is still very responsive. Performance is comparable with DS412+. 1Gbps network can be saturated with any type of RAID.

    XPEnology - Virtualized vs Standalone

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    Half Speed? Wow is far worse than I expected. I don't know if VirtualBox has the same IDE limitation, but this is a good reason to go "standalone".

     

    Glad to hear that replacing USB worked ok!

     

    Does this mean that Synology "O.S" is distributed among the existing hard drives?

    Virtualbox can emulate more controllers. You can add more SATA adapters and drives, but you are creating the files for your virtual drives that even slower than RDM.

    In my tests on ESXi, RDM RW speed were hovering around 50mbps. On the direct, standalone installation over 100mbps, limited by 1Gbps LAN speed.

     

    Synology DSM is distributed and installed on all "initialized" internal drives. If any of them survive the move to another system, they will have migratable or degraded status, but can be repaired or updated without erasing data. System partition can be upgraded with different version of DSM during the repair, keeping volumes with data safe.

    I've moved 4 drives from DS412+ to XPEnology box and it didn't even require repair. The volume just showed up with all the data.

    XPEnology DS3612xs DSM 4.2 BETA (build 3161)

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    Мне очень понравилась версия DS3612xs_2661-Repack от "odie82544" http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=9 ... &start=435

     

    synoboot USB правильно определяется как флешка и может быть отключена (eject) после загрузки, все USB порты и внешние диски видны и работают, HID UPS все равно не виден. При инсталляции DSM, USB не переписывается.

    Работает на ASUS E35M1-I (AMD E-350). У меня сейчас стоит 4ГБ памяти, но практически не используется столько. На 1ГБ больше половины тоже не использовалось. Процессор загружен сильно во время создания индехов и образов (thumbnail), а так-же во время бэкапа с rsync, но машина все равно отзывается довольно быстро. По скорости сравнимо с DS412+. 1Gbps линию полностью насыщает с любым видом RAID.

    XPEnology - Virtualized vs Standalone

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    I have tested XPEnology in the virtual environment with VMWare ESXi 5.1

    There is big performance penalty while using VM even with drives connected via RDM (Raw Device Mapping). About half of the speed that achievable with direct DSM installation. Also in ESXI currently it works with IDE emulated drives only and you are limited to 4 drives (I have 6 that I would like to use).

    Configured drives are migratable to another system without loosing data. On the direct hardware install, I was able to replace USB synoboot with different versions and still see and use existing volumes.

    How to install XPEnology

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    Could someone provide a bit more details about where to install DSM?

     

    I plan to use two HD in RAID1 for my data. Besides the USB stick with Synoboot, I guess I shall use a separate, dedicated HD/DOM/USB stick for DSM itself?

     

    Thx,

     

    Jefouille

     

    No. USB with Synoboot is for initial startup and DSM will be installed on the same harddrives that used for data storage, taking a small part for system needs. You can configure multiple volumes or single volume later on after DSM installed on the rest of the disks. Deselect the USB disk from volume creation if its visible, or you will corrupt the boot.

    Xpenology, scemd, overheating

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    То есть вирт-диски заданы только как файлы на LUN?

    Тогда это довольно странная проблема. Может стоит попробовать восстановить оригинальный SynoBoot_3612xs_4.1++.vmdk ? Он работает без этих проблем на ESXi 5.1 и на VMWare Workstation 9 тоже.

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